You Won't Go Back on Your Word, Will You?

Following the black cat, Jiang Yuan passed through a wall manifested by a barrier.

Jiang Yuan appeared inside a room in an extremely modern-style building. The room was filled with all sorts of technological products. A woman lay on a high-end massage sofa, wearing a gaming helmet on her head and soaking her feet in a bathtub.

No matter how he looked at it, she did not seem to be in the condition rumored outside—cursed and long past the point of any cure.

"Lady Evigre."

The black cat spoke.

"Juuust~"

"Waaait~"

Evigre did not even raise her head, her voice carrying a faint tremor.

The crystal screen before her showed her controlling a sports car, locked in a battle of speed with someone in the popular game [Speed Rush 199].

Jiang Yuan glanced at her.

[Eye of See Through All Things] activated.

Buzz!

Something on Evigre's body gave off a red glow, briefly forming a barrier that blocked the scan for an instant—but only for an instant.

[Eye of See Through All Things] was clearly of a higher rank.

[Character]: Evigre Taya.

[Level]: lv77.

[Class]: Divine Smith (Legendary).

[Talents]: Weave Law, Forge Soul.

[Status]: Decay. Afflicted by an ancient curse known as [Soulbinding Forge]. Her soul and body will gradually burn away as fuel, eventually turning her into a humanoid material filled with knowledge and resentment, or reducing her to the soul of an artifact.

...

[Handle of the Chaos Hammer]: God-tier material, one of the main fragments of a divine artifact. Contains endless mysteries of forging and can turn decay into the miraculous. Having been stained with a trace of dragon blood, its might has become even greater. Damage against dragon-attribute Demonic Beasts +200%.

Oh?

Jiang Yuan's eyes flickered.

That red glow had actually come from a